MonitorPro Description
A professional environmental and sustainability information management solution, particularly suited for industries related to natural resources. MonitorPro is globally tested and used in water and waste water industries, as well as waste management, metals and mining.
Intro
Eldorado Gold Corporation is a gold producer active in exploration and development. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada but with operations in USA, Brazil, China, Greece, Turkey and surrounding regions.
The Kisladağ gold mine, the largest in Turkey, required a software system to manage their environmental data.
”EHS Data Ltd allowed us to use their system on a trial basis in order for us to understand the system and how it works, they really made an effort on to explain the system to us during this time.
Gulden YukselEnvironment Manager
Overview
After a comprehensive search, and being impressed by the wide application of our MonitorPro software at mines across the world, Kisladağ decided that MonitorPro was the ideal tool to manage their compliance issues and to handle their environmental reporting requirements
Gulden Yuksel, Environment Manager at the site explains ‘EHS Data Ltd allowed us to use their system on a trial basis in order for us to understand the system and how it works, they really made an effort on to explain the system to us during this time.’ The team need to manage a range of data including noise, dust surface water, groundwater and weather. The new system replaces dozens of spreadsheets and will be used by five staff.
System
One of the key issues for Eldorado Gold for this implementation has been driven by their international footprint. Most obviously this has meant a need to produce reports in different languages (Turkish and English). This has been a simple operation in the software since Kisladağ have been able to define Turkish words and their English translation with the Turkish being used in Turkish reports and vice versa. The MonitorPro user-defined fields system was used for this. The reporting engine in the system is Crystal Reports which enables the creation of report formats in different languages and alphabets.
Implementation
Perhaps less obviously is the need to cope with different formats in data across Europe & N.America. So for example ‘one hundred thousand’ in Europe is 100,000, whereas in Canada it is 100.000. There is also the problem of identifying UK and US date formats, additionally the Kisladağ noise meters report dates with dots (e.g. 12.06.2008). Therefore a key part of this implementation has been to configure MonitorPro to automatically recognise different formats, provide an audit trail for the data and report it in the correct format to be understandable to readers in the different geographies.
”It is good that we will be able to obtain both Turkish and English reports from the system. We have also been very happy regarding the technical support we have received and EHS data are always helpful and responsive enabling us to solve problems quickly. Soon the system will be effectively used for our daily, weekly, monthly and annual environmental reports.
Gulden YukselEnvironment Manager
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”It is good that we will be able to obtain both Turkish and English reports from the system. We are managed by an overseas company and reports in both languages are essential as a consequence. We have also been very happy regarding the technical support we have received and EHS data are always helpful and responsive enabling us to solve problems quickly.
Gulden YukselEnvironment Manager
About EHS Data
EHS Data is a world leading UK based software company providing Environmental Data Management Solutions to over 1,000 sites in 40 countries worldwide. For over 20 years, our versatile software solution, MonitorPro, has helped organisations save time, improve planning, quality control, site analysis and reporting to manage environmental obligations and sustainability. MonitorPro is the first EHS Software solution to receive an MCERTS accreditation from the Environmental Agency. In 2020, EHS Data announced their pledge to become a carbon negative organisation.
